SETH DAVIS'S THREE-POINTER

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Nov. 28, 2011

Half a world away and in the middle of the night, a team of freewheeling Americans handily won another Presidents Cup, but the big-picture takeaway was that in the scheme of global golf, the U.S. is simply another player. And that's not such a bad thing

SPORTS ILLUSTRATED asked the 132 teenagers—90 boys and 42 girls—playing in a recent American Junior Golf Association tournament for their opinions on Tiger Woods, favorite playing partners, politics, performance-enhancing drugs, the makeup of their bags and more

Our sports have become more and more about money and marketing. But to most of us they're still about the stories we tell one another, the transcendent moments that lift us—the very way we define ourselves

SETH DAVIS'S THREE-POINTER

Catch Casper Ware if you can. Long Beach State's 5'10" senior point guard may be hard to find on TV, but he is a dynamic athlete who averaged 24.6 points and 5.3 assists in the 49ers' first three games. He had 28 points and six assists in LBSU's upset win at Pitt on Nov. 16... . UCLA has had a disastrous start. After losses to Loyola Marymount and Middle Tennessee State by a combined 31 points, Bruins coach Ben Howland suspended his best player, 6'8" junior forward Reeves Nelson, for one game for conduct detrimental to the team... . Florida's guards get most of the media attention, but the Gators' offense runs through Patric Young. The 6'9", 245-pound sophomore, a much-improved offensive player, had double doubles in two of his first three games, including 14 points and 12 boards in last week's loss at Ohio State.